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Entry: ca:mmaʔ, -ca:nd-/-ca:n-
Grammar: vt.
Meaning: colour, paint, dye
Comments: kɛmdza:ndɛi:? Did they get you? ('they' being nonLimbu Nepalis celebrating Holī).
Entry: ca:pca:ppa
Grammar: adj.
Meaning: very clever, very intelligent, quick-witted.
Derivation: [< ca:ppa clever]
Entry: ca:ppa
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: adj.
Meaning: clever.
Entry: ca:rik
Comments: vide sa:ʔrik.
Entry: ca:tmaʔ, -ca:tt-/-ca:t-/-ca:ʔl
Grammar: vt.
Meaning: 1) feed; 2) inflict
Derivation: [dir. < camaʔ eat]
Comments: 1) ca:ttuNsiN I fed them; tɔk kɛdza:ttwi:? Did you feed him bhāt? 2)tukhe: ca:tt-aN (pain feed-1sPS/PT) He hurt me
Entry: ca:tmaʔ, -ca:tt-/-ca:t-/ca:ʔl
Grammar: vt. [dir. < ca:maʔ play
Meaning: perform] play (a game, a festive activity), eg. piNpiN, sarɔ:ndi, q.v.
Comments: khɛnɛʔ hɛn hɛn ca:maʔ kɛlɛ:su? What games do you know how to play?; piNpiN ca:ttuNsiN I swung them in the game of piŋ; piN kɛdza:ttwi:? Did you swing the ferris wheel around in the game of piN?; laNpho:Nga ca:tche pe:gi Let's go play football.
Entry: casma
Grammar: n.
Meaning: glasses, spectacles.
Derivation: [< Nep. casmā]
Entry: cautara
Grammar: n.
Meaning: clay or stone terrace or bench alongside the road or path, ideally underneath a tree.
Derivation: [< Nep. cautārā]
Entry: cawa
Grammar: n.
Meaning: feed for livestock
Derivation: [< camaʔ eat]
Comments: Nep. cāro.
Entry: ce:k
Grammar: n.
Meaning: piece, fragment.
Entry: ce:li, -ndze:li-
Grammar: n.
Meaning: married sister who has left the common paternal home to join the household of her spouse, male sibling speaking.
Entry: ce:mmaʔ, -ce:m-
Grammar: vt.
Meaning: (with 3s patient agreement) glare, be unpleasantly light
Comments: namille amikʔin ce:mu The sun is glaring in my eyes.
Entry: ce:pi
Grammar: n.
Meaning: onion.
Entry: cɛkmaʔ, -cɛg-/-cɛk-
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: vi.
Meaning: dialectal variant of ɛkmaʔ in the vicinity of Saokrāntī to the north of Myāŋluŋ
Comments: vide ɛkmaʔ.
Entry: cɛkmaʔ, -cɛkt-/-cɛk-
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: vt.
Meaning: discuss someone or something, tell all about someone or something
Comments: ni:r-u-bɛ-n e:ʔyaNba mʔna-:n cɛkt-u (read-3P-NɔM-ABS other man-ABS tell all about-3P) He told all about the other man whom he had read about; cf. cɛ:Nmaʔ, tadzɛNmaʔ.
Entry: cɛllɛklɛkpa, cɛllɛklɛkma
Grammar: adj.
Meaning: adolescent, lively, full of zest, boisterous, laughing and jeering
Comments: cɛllɛklɛkpa mɛllɔʔrammʔo:! Don't behave boisterously!; cf. cɛllɛkwa.
Entry: cɛllɛkwa
Grammar: n.
Meaning: adolescence, puberty; boisterousness
Comments: kɔN hɛndzaʔille kudzɛllɛkwa lɔ:ndɛ This girl has attained puberty; kɛsaʔille kudzɛllɛkwa nɛ: rǝcǝ Your son seems to have reached puberty; cf. cɛllɛklɛkpa, hillikwa, kɛpmaʔ (3), kɛpmaʔ (3).
Entry: cɛmbi
Grammar: n.
Meaning: soybeans, esp. roasted soybeans (eaten as lɛndzya or midday snack with popcorn, vide ma:ki)
Comments: Nep. bhaṭmās; cf. i:mbriN.
Entry: cɛmghik
Grammar: n.
Meaning: 'soy-bitter', a fermented soybean dish, prepared by putrefying cooked soybeans with a minute admixture of ash for several days
Derivation: [cɛm- ? cɛmbi soybean + khik- ʔ khikmaʔ be bitter]
Comments: see recipe in Appendix I; Nep. kināmā.
Entry: cɛndze:ba
Grammar: n.
Meaning: shins.
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